Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-06 Thread Arnold Krille
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:40:39 +0200 Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > sure, regular full backups are a great thing. But there's one simple > thing I like to do especially with code: Setup your repositories on a > different machine (like a rented root server, or a public hoster like > github). Then a

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-06 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:40:39AM +0200, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > sure, regular full backups are a great thing. But there's one simple > thing I like to do especially with code: Setup your repositories on > a different machine (like a rented root server, or a public hoster > like github). Th

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-06 Thread Florian Paul Schmidt
On 05.09.2013 23:08, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:53:33PM -0700, J. Liles wrote: Another one bites the dust... Should've run Non on it instead. Seriously though, it's a shame. Fortunately, there are still quite a few motherboards out there with at least one PCI slot. I t

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-05 Thread J. Liles
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > After more than 10 years of service my first ever Linux system > died yesterday. The original configuration was P4, 0.5G memory, > two IDE HD of 60G each, and it pretty much stayed like that. > Two years ago the power supply blew up and was

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-05 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:53:33PM -0700, J. Liles wrote: > Another one bites the dust... Should've run Non on it instead. Seriously > though, it's a shame. Fortunately, there are still quite a few > motherboards out there with at least one PCI slot. I trust you had > everything backed up! Almo

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 September 2013 17:30:26 Fons Adriaensen did opine: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:53:33PM -0700, J. Liles wrote: > > Another one bites the dust... Should've run Non on it instead. > > Seriously though, it's a shame. Fortunately, there are still quite a > > few motherboards out there

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-05 Thread John Rigg
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:09:56PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > The new zita1 will probably be a Fujitsu P510, one of the > reasons being that this is one of the few still having at > least one PCI slot, so I can still use my sound cards. Any > suggestions for alternatives are welcome ! If you

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-05 Thread Eric Wong
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > The new zita1 will probably be a Fujitsu P510, one of the > reasons being that this is one of the few still having at > least one PCI slot, so I can still use my sound cards. Any > suggestions for alternatives are welcome ! I just built a Haswell Xeon-based workstation w

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-04 Thread Geoff Beasley
On 09/05/13 05:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote: one of the reasons being that this is one of the few still having at least one PCI slot Hi Fons. Sad day. I have just built a new system comprising an ASUS H87-PRO which has 3 PCI slots and several pcie as well. Uses the new HASWELL Intel cpu's but it

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-04 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello Fons! I suppose there are just as many answers, that there are users on this list. I have a quad core Athlon 3GHz and 2GB of memory.l Since I use a text-based system, that might be just right for you. :-) My motherboard is a n68-s3ucc asrock. I suppose that might no longer be in stock,

[LAD] zita1 RIP

2013-09-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
After more than 10 years of service my first ever Linux system died yesterday. The original configuration was P4, 0.5G memory, two IDE HD of 60G each, and it pretty much stayed like that. Two years ago the power supply blew up and was replaced by an external one (too big to go inside). Last year th